[FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

[Steve Smith]

On 6/16/23 2:31 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
>
> Here in the U.S., Jennifer DeStefano, an Arizona mother, testified at 
> a Senate hearing this week about her harrowing experience with a 
> deepfake scam that tricked her into thinking her daughter had been 
> kidnapped. DeStefano says the fake kidnappers demanded a $50,000 
> ransom before she got in touch with her daughter, who was in fact safe 
> and sound.
>
> *Jennifer DeStefano*: “It was my daughter’s voice. It was her cries. 
> It was her sobs. It was the way she spoke. I will never be able to 
> shake that voice and the desperate cries for help out of my mind. It’s 
> every parent’s worst nightmare to hear your child pleading with fear 
> and pain, knowing that they’re being harmed and that you’re helpless. 
> The longer this form of terror remains unpunishable, the farther and 
> more egregious it will become. There is no limit to the depth of evil 
> AI can enable.”
>
>
> Is it already too late to design any kind of regulations?
>
I think it will require some deep re-factoring of many things ranging 
from government regulations and enforcement to social norms and 
expectations.  I fear this will require some kind of collapse or 
revolution and renewal from the ashes.

This is not a reason not to consider deeply what these 
rules/regulations/etc might be... if anyone here knows of serious 
efforts one or two orders-of-magnitude/levels-of-indirection away from 
"the usual" I'd be interested... this qualifies as "wycked-hard" 
problem.  I think there has been precedent for this level of refactoring 
but I think there were things like World Wars that accompanied that 
magnitude (and quality) of change.

>
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> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
> Center for Emergent Diplomacy
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